Quotes On Animals Extinction

#1. When all the trees have been cut down and all the animals have been hunted to extinction, when all the waters are polluted and the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#2. 200 The Industrial Revolution. Family and community are replaced by state and market. Massive extinction of plants and animals.

Yuval Noah Harari

#3. Love is active, not passive. It is our love for one another, for Mother Earth, for our fellow creatures that compels us to act on their behalf.

Laurence Overmire

#4. We have no problem with the extinction of domestic animals.

Wayne Pacelle

#5. The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we should take account of the motive of the lawgiver, rather than of his very words.

Thomas Aquinas

#6. What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#7. It was one thing to pray for a Christmas miracle, to believe in one. It was something else entirely to see it happen before their eyes.

Karen Kingsbury

#8. I cheated a lot, because I just couldn't sit and do homework. I usually sat next to someone extremely smart.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#9. When you saw Jon Lovitz or Dana Carvey or Phil Hartman doing something, they were acting. It was real acting. Like, they were acting like that person. They weren't like - it wasn't even like they were really trying to go for a laugh, especially in Phil Hartman's case.

Bill Hader

#10. One of the maxims of the new field of conservation biological control is that to control insect herbivores, you must maintain populations of insect herbivores.

Douglas Tallamy

#11. A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#12. I was outclassed and outgunned, and I was only realizing it when it was too late to do a damn thing about it. A heart could only break so many times before the cause was lost.

R.K. Lilley

#13. The lie described my life better than the truth,' I added. 'Until it became a kind of truth.

Ben Lerner

#14. Today, amphibians enjoy the dubious distinction of being the world's most endangered class of animals; it's been calculated that the group's extinction rate could be as much as forty-five thousand times higher than the background rate.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#15. Silence is consent. And silence where life and liberty is at stake, where by a timely protest we could stay the destoyer's hand, and do not do so, is as criminal as giving actual aid to the oppressor, for it answers his purpose ...

Ernestine Rose

#16. We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding.

Wayne Pacelle

#17. I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.

Jerzy Kosinski

#18. Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the true riches of our planet, our real inheritance. These are big, critical goals.

April Gornik

#19. We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the last 65 million years. If we don't find answers to these problems, we're gonna be victims of this extinction event that we're at fault for.

Paul Watson